This is an update to an earlier post here.
I’ve finally gotten around to getting my completed puzzle (puzzle name: Year of the Rabbit) framed by the shop. I chose dark green for the frame and a light beige for the border. At first I considered getting non-glare glass but it was also thicker and made the fine details in the art harder to see clearly, so I went with regular glass. I paid B$50 and they told me to collect it after the weekend. After waiting a few days, I went to pick it up and after getting home, I put it on the bed (I didn’t want to leave it on the floor yet as my bunnies were still running around) while I went to get dinner.
I went back to my room 10 minutes later and was greeted by the sight of Bunbun sitting incriminatingly on the bed in front of the framed puzzle. When he saw me, he hopped off the bed. I took a closer look at the puzzle fearing the worst. Sure enough, Bunbun, ever the ironist, had decided to inflict actual rabbit destruction on the rabbit-themed jigsaw puzzle and chewed a big chunk off the top part of the frame. The madman is still napping under my bed as I type this.
I tried using a green colour pencil to shade in the ‘crater’ to make it less obvious, but obviously that didn’t help much. I couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to smooth it out with wood putty filler either. I did consider taking it back to the shop to repair but I didn’t want to spend any more than I already did.
I posted it on the Bunnies are Jerks FB group because it deserved to be shared and the consensus was overwhelmingly in favour of me keeping it in its meta, post-rabbit destruction state. Some said it was authentic now, some said the puzzle belonged to bunny in the first place anyway, a few said it was the perfect touch, most thought it was funny, and others said it wasn’t really that noticeable anyway. In the end, I decided to leave it as it is. Who am I to question Bunbun’s artistic vision?